Backroom Book of the Month Club

**Don Corleone** · 06-25-2007, 19:46

As long as we're levying suggestions, how about "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore?

Just kidding. I'd like to suggest "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca. I had been planning on reading it over the 4th anyway....

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 06-25-2007, 23:52

If people want to focus on non-fiction in the backroom, I could set up a fiction book-club in the frontroom, in a months time. Might be easier.

**Fragony** · 06-26-2007, 09:06

Originally Posted by Lemur

Really? Strange, since I saw him interviewed. Here's a YouTube of the man. Are we talking about the same book?

Yes, it isn't really fictional, he knows what he's talking about, but he invented the main character. That shouldn't stop you from reading it, it's great.

**Banquo's Ghost** · 06-26-2007, 09:30

I am conflicted. I have had "House of Leaves" on my list for a while (and it went up the list smartly after Fragony's recommendation in The Other Place

) not least from professional curiosity. It's quite expensive here though, so it might push some budgets.

But I advocated a non-fiction approach, and ought to stick to my proposal. In which case, I need more thinking time to consider the list.

(At least if you all choose the graphic novel, I can bow out gracefully - never liked the form

)

**Louis VI the Fat** · 06-26-2007, 17:35

Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

(At least if you all choose the graphic novel, I can bow out gracefully - never liked the form

)

But this is the best commix book ever. There are these little mice and they are running and hiding from mean nazis who are everywhere and they mean harm to the cute mice but then this one mouse discovers that he has superpowers and he beats many nazi cats by shooting laser beams from his eyes and he tells his girlfriend mouse she sows a suit with SuperMouse for him but then they must flee anyway but still this book roXorX and the end is very sad.

**Tristuskhan** · 06-26-2007, 17:49

Louis, don't be sarcastic! People who did not read it could believe you!

**Banquo's Ghost** · 06-26-2007, 19:35

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

But this is the best commix book ever. There are these little mice and they are running and hiding from mean nazis who are everywhere and they mean harm to the cute mice but then this one mouse discovers that he has superpowers and he beats many nazi cats by shooting laser beams from his eyes and he tells his girlfriend mouse she sows a suit with SuperMouse for him but then they must flee anyway but still this book roXorX and the end is very sad.

Ah, Louis, what would I do without your sage guidance? I had been labouring under the misapprehension that a graphic novel was a work full of sex and violence, but now I know that they are in fact about cartoon animals, and in pictures no less, my life is complete - but clearly not my library.

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